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March 1, 2011

Playing Pepper: 2011 Red Sox

Daniel Shoptaw, founder of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance and Cardinals blogger at C70 At The Bat, sent me (and two other bloggers) five questions about the 2011 Red Sox as part of his Playing Pepper series.

Our comments are here*. My answers, in brief: It was a fantastic winter; Gonzalez > Crawford; Beckett should be better; no impact prospects this year; 102-60.

* It's discouraging to see a Sox blogger already tossing shit at J.D. Drew, even though the team had not (at the time said shit was tossed) played even one official spring training game. And then to make a sideways reference to Trot Nixon -- when the facts tell us that Drew has been far more durable in Boston than Nixon was, as well as a similar hitter, and a better fielder and smarter base-runner, ...